Outcome after maternal varicella infection in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 330, Issue 13, 1994, Pages 901-905

  Pastuszak, Anne L ^a   Levy, Maurice ^a   Schick, Betsy ^b   Zuber, Carol ^c   Feldkamp, Marcia ^d   Gladstone, Johnathan ^a   Bar Levy, Fanny ^a   Jackson, Elaine ^a   Donnenfeld, Alan ^b   Meschino, Wendy ^e   Koren, Gideon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Pregnancy Risk Information Service ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERPES ZOSTER IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TERATOGENICITY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ABNORMALITIES; CHICKENPOX; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 0028349852     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199403313301305     Document Type: Article

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